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PAGE FOUR x Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered a» Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three M0nth5......2 1.95 One Month —... .65 One Week .... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service World Wide Pictures LABOR VERSUS CAPITAL. The age-old battle of capital vs. labor is again rearing its head, as the nation anxiously awaits the next move in the present crisis in which the steel industry is occupying the central role. Carrying the fight against company unions which predominate in this all important industry in American business, the national labor leaders are determined to bring about the abolishment of singular unions, and provide the needed impetus to carry the United Mine Workers of America, headed by the militant John L. Lewis into full power among the workers of the steel industry. Many have been the prophecies concerning the final outcome of this major labor battle, with leading industrial critics taking the issues on both sides. The steel interests are determined to keep the influence of unionized labor out of their midst. The or ganized labor groups are determined to bring about the complete unionization of the steel industry. These two sentences sum up the entire fight, and the adamant stand taken by both interests forecasts a long and bitter battle to the very end with no quarter asked nor given. It would appear from the statements of the labor leaders that the so-called company unions are controlled in their entirety by the steel “bosses.” They state that they are determined that the long dynasty enjoyed by industrial leaders is due to topple, and that the reign of non-interference by labor leaders has come to an end. On the other hand it appears from the statements by leading industrialists of the various steel companies that they are taking militant stands against any outside interference, and assure freedom against coercion by third party interests. It seems that the steel companies will never require their employes to belong to any union to gain employment. The whole country wats with baited breath as the hour approaches for a final showdown. Up to this time, the steel in dustry has been successful in resisting the attempts by organized labor to extend its influence into the various companies. But labor has grown to such a position of importance that whether at this stage of the game, it can renew its age-long fight with a successful ending, remains to be seen. Both parties boast some of the leading figures in the na tion's political and industrial fields. Both parties have ample funds from which they might be able to carry on the fight into the proportions of a standout. Who will win? Will it be capital, with its ever present sources of unlimited revenue, or will it be the labor group with the bounding energy and spirit of organiza tion of the workers as the moving force. Perhaps capital will win again, aMd perhaps, on the other hand, labor will step into the niche of success, which it has hand hewn by the experience of former defeats. OUR READERS’ FORUM | (AU communications intended for pub lication tinder this bending must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be j;iven any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted in this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be Imited to 1<)O words. The Savannah Daily Times does wot Intend that the selection of letters pub lished in this column shall in any way reflect or conform with the editorial views and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) Editor Daily Times: Savannah is an attractive city, but it certainly has many “sore spots” which it should attempt to erase. I have noticed particularly the shabby condition of many of its sidewalks. Well paved roads and neat, sturdy sidewalks are an essential part of any city which depends on tourist trads as much as Savannah does. Even if Savannah were not so large ly dependent upon tourists, it would have no excuse for leaving some of its sidewalks in as deplorable a con- NOT--In the News ••• « « * COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION ONE OF OUR more ardent fans has complained to us about the con clusions reached in a recent ocntro versy over the question: “Who is the better looking—man or woman?” Jane, who makes the complaint, is not so incensed over the fact that her sex didn’t score so well in the find ings as she is over the negative man ner in which it was decided that mas culinity was the more beautiful. In this psychological controversy the question as to the relative hand sorriness of man and woman seemed to be settled with an invitation such as this: “Just put a woman in male attire, and then see which is the better look ing.” Well, Jane doesn’t think that test is quite fair. “All right.” she says, Spartanlike, “let the man be the best looking of the sexes. Who cares, anyway? "But I think before they put all this down in the record books, I be- dition as they are. Many sidewalks are rough and broken and constitute a decided menace to pedestrians. Along many narrow streets there is no sidewalk at all. This puts the pedestrian in danger of being hit by automobiles. No time should be wasted about matters like this. Some sort of action is needed. A VISITOR. Editor The Daily Times: It was encouraging to read the ar ticle in Thursday’s paper announc ing that the American Automobile association planned to launch a na tionwide fight against the parking meter. The evils pointed out by the leaders of this group have all been discovered to be only too true by Miamians. Most of us want no part of these machines. When a large organization like the A.A.A. takes up the cudgels there ap pears to be some hope that this lat est menace to taxpayers may be elim inated. AN AUTOIST. lieve they ought to make another test. It’s this: "Put the handsomest men in the world in formal evening gowns, the best available. Then just see how swell they look! Bah!” * ♦ * WE CAN recall the day when moth ers could coax the most stubborn of pouting children with the offer of an ice cream cone or a stick of candy. But, evidently, it takes a greater en ticement these days. Mary Muir a Michigan reader, est tifles that some mothers are now us ing different methods. She relays the story of a Detroit woman, who was attempting to influence her five-year old son to go along with her into a store. “Come along, Bobby”, pleaded the mother. “Come along—mother’s GOT MONEY!” * * * THE INDIANA farmer who posted this sign in front of his property has a monopoly on his rare product: For Sal- Collie Puppies Fresh Eggs ON GUARD! \X •' i'T 1 <■/>< -- . " z i1 /*/ - WMwr whyhot WMlwta* ) WW' paces,., —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— McCARL’S VALEDICTORY Denouncing Extravagance of Emergency Set-Ups GIVES AID TO LANDON By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 6—John Ray mond McCarl, retiring as comptroller general of the United States, landed : about as severe a spank on the New ' Deal as well could have been imagin- I ed, with his denunciation of the ex- ; travagance of its emergency setups. For one thing, McCarl spoke as a high authority. He has been administering govern ment expenditures for 15 years, with presidents of both parties in the White House. He has handled his job honestly and competently. He has been called tight-fisted, but never a breath of scandal has been suggest ed in conection with his running of one of the least popular of federal of fices, for its principal function has been the paring down of expense ac counts. * * * Kept Out of Politics Secondly, the comptroller general has kept scrupulously out of politics. He expresses himself with no tinge of partisanship. For a decade and a half he has not said a word except through his offi cial opinions. Republicans and Dem ocrats have raged alike at what he would not permit them to spend. He never has answered. After his long silence, his voice sounded like a thunderclap. SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT French UfDICrtONAIRE DE t YQMm Wj ACADEMIC ) WAS 1 i' ' 300 VEARS • Aqo UNDER. A ' IwM Y » / .' . \ RICHELIEU f k £\\ i IT IS NOT i KJ j/y U, il ’ DONE AND ■Hev There. wonTbe BE CAREFUL o? . UNT(I Your, proboscis'- The year There are. 2,200 at 14 BONESE Human nose 1S \ NOW x -| . T STUDY in ’t PERSPECTIVE ii.M. i A PINEAPPLE. * I i 15 on Th is /J / LIBERIAN STAMp •The CALVES A \\ 41 in This picture. \\ areThie. Same Size \\ Z COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION J SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936 I And it was apropos just as he was ! quitting—his valedictory. • • • Constructive , Another item: i McCarl is not purely a fault finder. He did find fault but he offered his ; ' services to aid in correcting the faults. Congress is trying now to hit on a method of consolidating agencies and reducing governmental overlapping and duplication of expense. Os all individuals, McCarl is best equipped by experience to be helpful at this task. There is little money in it for him. The most that can be made by the adviser to a committee on Capitol Hill is S3OO monthly. McCarl can beat that, many times over, practic ing law. * * * As A Candidate Ray McCarl, as I have previously remarked, was a little talked about as a 1936 Republican presidential pos sibility. Governor Landon scored instead. Now McCarl is mentioned in con nection with 1940. I cannot see that he will rate as a candidate then. • • • His Chances Dim A presidential candidate must have been in the limelight. McCarl, momentarily, is. If Landon is presidentially elected, maybe McCarl will be in line for a cabinet appointment. That wil keep him in the lime , light. But in 1940 Landon will be in line 1 for renomination; it will not be Mc j Carl. » * • No Bright Prospect On the other hand, suppose Presi dent Roosevelt is re-elected. In that event McCarl will get no i cabinet appointment, and will not : have a background in 1940. In short it is a gloomy prospect for McCarl. If Landon is elected McCarl will play second fiddle to him until Mc- Carl is too od to count. If Roosevelt wins McCarl will have faded into ob scurity before his chance comes again. • • • Aids Landon McCarl’s utterance is a terrific slam for Roosevelt, anyway. It is great campaign material for Landon. It doesn't appear to be calculated to do McCarl any ultimate good. It is honest, but not particularly profit able, so far as appears, to McCarl. ONE MINUTE PULPIT He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.—Proverb 28:20. The official flag of the city of New York, adopted in 1915, tells the story of the origin and early history of the municipality. The colors of the flag are Dutch-blue, white and orange. These same colors folated over the island more than 300 years ago. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— UNEMPLOYMEMT STAYS As a Scare Goblin to Both Parties AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) Neither Republicans nor Democrats met the relief problem squarely in their respective conventions. They skirted all around the basic issues of the unemployment question. In spite of the best business condi tions in six years—and in some indus tries the best business on record — unemployment remains at a high level Worse, states and municipalities and counties are failing to m<»et their relief responsibilities. Relief may be a local issue, as critics of the New Deal assert, but persons dependent on relief do not, believe so. What Way? The noisy conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, of course, purpose ly avoided the basic unemployment issue. It is a scare goblin—just around the corner—for both parties. The Republicans condemned, and much of what they said was true, yet offered merely the alternative that had failed —leave it all to the unham pered business to find the way. The Democrats would go on pay ing endlessly. The Coughlin-Lemke party would put the making of money into the hands of the people. How any of these hopes w’ould eventuate into jobs for all is not ex plained logically. The Socialists demand a planned economy and every man to share in MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK. July 6—Odd Lots: At a loose end in downtown Man hattan I loitered outside a shop where a jeweler was selling a large stock of miscellany at auction . . . A youth with apple cheeks bid $2 for the “surprise mystery package” and opened it then and there; he had bought a bronze pocket toothpick, complete with fob chain and bearing the inscription, “Harry, 1889” . . . Westbrook Peglers private lake on his Connecticut estate has been dub bed “Lake Malice” . . . Felix Ferry the exquisite Anglo-French producer of girlesque shows will soon offer Lon don a revue with the most distressing | title in years: “Ferry Tales of 1936” | . . .' Young Jimmie Donahue one of Manhattan’s few authenticated mil lionaire playboys, will finance the show, adding another name to the ros ter of emeste Social Register theatri coes. . . * * * As this is written Governor Lehman remains coy about running again for the governorship adding nothing much to his original statement that he would not be a candidate, yet all the know-it-alls insist that he will run without doubt ... I even saw a wager of $5 to $1 placed today in a printshop bistro, with the short end of the bet put up by a man who thought Lehman really intended to retire ... If Lehman actually with draws from politics it will startle and engross this reporter, because it will be the first time in his life he has seen a politician retire for any other reason than the insistence of the electorate ... I have viewed the Lcuis-Cchmeling fight pictures twice at the movies and each time could not but remark the pokey pace of the fight on film, when it was such a hair-raiser and yell-incited for tho.e who were present. • * ♦ A pair of laughing ladies inspect ing the fountain on the Rockefeller Center Plaza terrace, developed, after a. bit of frowning and noggin-tkurnp ing on the part of your gad-about, to be the Marchioness of Milford- Haven und Gloria Vanderbilt . . Now all the drawing rooms buzz with high praise for that strange and, for this taste rather rambly novel-con fession, “The Last Puritan,” by George Santayana ... I hear it has sold 150 000 . . . Yet insight into the read ing habits of certain bcok-buyers may be had in the comment of two pretty young things at a tea-party . . . One was a radio warbler, the other a de signer of modernistic ash trays . After loudly lauding the tome, they confessed privately: “We bought it, but we haven’t read it. Don’t give us away. We made an election bet and the loser will have to read ‘The Last Puritan’ ”... However, by the time November rolls around some new literary wunderkind will have explod ed on the stalls ... I had a bet on in the case of “Anthony Adverse”, but I won and so the book stiff awaits a long period with nothing ■ to do . . . Now that the conventions are over, the columnists are casting about for some place else to go . . . But they see only the summer doldrums ahead, without even a good hanging to lure them afield ... I went to neither cir cus, but a collegiate reader sends me an echo in the form of the wording on a crjptic banner displayed re cently ;.t of all places, the Yale class reunion . . . The placard rcaa: "A Vote for Mr. Roosevet is a Vote for Mrs. Roosevelt” . . And from the Philadelphia orgy these ears, long attuned to trivia caught only a story told by the flam buoyant ex-Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama ... A pedagogue was be moaning to the parent of one of his charges that the bey could not be made to stop saying “I seen” . . . The father retorted: “Don't worry about that. I’d rather he said 'I seen’ when he really seen something than to say ’I saw’ when he ain’t saw nothing!” i the resources and the earnings of in- I dustry and land according to his la ' bor. | Some plan is essential, economists | say. Otherwise, business itself will ' be the greatest sufferer. Printing or Borrowing? Printing more money may elimi nate interest, which eats away sav ings. But will the decline in the value of money not be more, much more, than the cost of the interest? Money is a medium of exchange. In itself, it can mean nothing. Men do believe that the government ought to have full control of it but not to . manipulate. Issuance of interest-bearing bonds is a decided burden. These interest bearing bonds eventually take more away than outright taxes. But every body fights taxes. The alternative borders on social ism and communism. Thus the American choice will be (1) more bonds, (2) and or more taxes, (3) and or printing money. It may be all three. That is the Wall Street view, stat ed over and over again. It blames it all on President Roose •velt. But there seems to be nobody in Wall Street, either, who looks very far ahead. » ♦ * Cost of Interest This will explain the cost of inter est: Cleveland built a city hall 25 years ago. It issued bonds for the purpose in the sum of $3,680,000. All the bonds will not have been paid off until 1952. The interest by that time will have amounted to $3,706,000. In brief, the interest amounts to $26,000 more than the principal. The city hall cost not merely the $3,680,000 paid for the actual con struction, but twice that sum. ♦ ♦ • Unemployment We take these headlines from a buletin of the Alexander Hamilton Institute: “Employment up only 9.5 per cent since the low for the depression, while production has increased 21.2 per cent. Employment, however, held rp better than production in 1930-’32 slump. Consequently, despite the slower gain in employment since 1932 employment shows less of a decrease since 1929 than production. From now on gain in employment should keep pace with rise in output. Out put, however, must rise above 1929 volume to absorb al unemployed due to increase in supply of workers and to the fact that there was consider able amount of unemployment in 1929.” Even in the “best’ year the United States ever has observed, .unemploy ment was high—perhaps the highest in the world. “Maldistribution,” economists say. And—they add—maldistribution re mains. President Roosevelt made some mention of it in his Philadelphia speech. Your’e Telling Me? MANY A MOTORIST whose ambi tion was to drive the fastest vehicle wound up his career driving the slowest —a wheel chair. * * * We cannot see anything so strange in this Denver man who sleeps standing up. The minor league baseball cutfields are full of them. A Londoner has invented a signal apparatus which, when operated by a centist's patient, notifies the molar miner when to keep on drilling and when, because of pain, to stop. O. K. but can you arrest the dentist if he crashes the red light? * * * Japanese government has pro tested establishment of radia sta tion in American embassy in To kio. This is the first inkling we have had that Uncle Sam has crooners in his diplomatic cerps. ALL or US THE TERRIBLE INSULT A WOMAN I know uses the word “masculine” as if it were an epithet! On her lips “masculine” is abuse and scorn and contempt. When she applies it to a man the edges of his egotism curl up and shrivel. When she says V her husband “Don’t be so masculine!” he knows exactly what she means by it and it’s NO compliment. He knows he’s been act ing like a Traditional Male—and he ought to be ashamed of himself. He knows exactly what she thinks of him at that humiliating moment. As she uses the word, “being mas culine” means to swagger—to disre gard other people’s rights in a dumb ly arrogant way—to bluster out of a jam—to bullyrag through a diffi culty—to treat a woman as if she didn’t amount to much—to pay her silly compliments instead of treating her as if she had intelligence—m fact, to look upon ALL women in the traditional male fashion, as trivial and shallow creatures who are pleas ant enough as amusements, but of course, aren’t to be the companions of a man’s higher self. Being masculine is being the Head of the House and riding roughshod over other people. It is calling up at 6 o’clock—when the table is all set—and casualy an nouncing you won't be home to din ner. It is deciding an important domes- Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per- by Central Press Association (Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso ciation) Monday, July 6: Tammuz, 16, 5696 in Jewish calendar?. Martyrdom of John Huss, a holiday in Czecho slovakia. Zodiac sign: Cancer. Full moon. ♦ ♦ ♦ NOTABLE NATIVITIES Maj. William E. Kepnsr, b. 1893, U. S. army, strktosophere aeronaut. . , . Harry Ford Sinclair, b. 1876, oil mag nate. . . • Harold S. Vanderbilt, b. 1884, largest stockholder in New York Central R. R., yachtsman and bridge player . . . Roger Babson, b. 1875, statistician . . . Ralph Wupperman, known as Morgan, b. 1887, cinemac tor .. . Earl D. Babst , b. 1879, sugar magnate . . . Dhan Gopal Murkerji, b. 1890, Hindu-American au thor. * * * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS July 6, 1646—Gottfried Wilhelm Loibnitz was born in Lolpzig, where, when he was only 22, he evolved the plan for conquest of Egypt which sug gested Napoleon’s invasion of the Nile country 150 years later. He lias been suggesting things to men ever since, for he discovered cal culus, and he first showed that of two equal nurses, “the first, if mov ing with double the velocity of the second, would overcome four times the resistance —in other words, that energy, the power of doing work, varied as the square of the velocity.” Which means that if you had an accident while driving your car 60 miles an hour, you would hit an ob struction four times as hard as though you were driving 30 miles an hour. Leibnitz, whose range of knowledge is ratsd as having been greater than any thinker since Aristotle, disputed the latter’s believing, “Nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses except the intellect itself,” in stead of “nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.” July 6, 1747—John Paul was born in Kirbean, Scotland. He was known as John Paul Jones when, at 29, he was given command of the warship with which, in Six weeks, he captured 16 ships and gave the British navy the worst defeats it ever suffered from one commander. The first “Star Spangle Banner” to fly in action and the first to be saluted abroad, was at the staff of Jones’ Ranger. The banner was made, we are informed, by Miss Sarah Aus tin, a Swedish Lutheran church com mittee in Philadelphia. The victories Jones won for the U. S. on the seas caused him to receive high honors from France and Russia, and a Russian princsss as his bride. But John Adams referred to him as a “foreigner from the south, arrogat ing to himself merit that belongs to New England sailors.” July 6,1776 —0 n receiving first news of the adoption of Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia, New Yorkers pulled down the town’s statue, of Kxng George 111 and delivered it to a metal works where it was melted down into 42,088 cartridges. As a wit of the time stated, “His Majesty’s statue was returned to His Majesty’s troops.” July 6, 1835—John Marshall died at 80, after 35 years as Chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States, during which he established the court’s power to void legislative acts of congress. Liberty Bell got its big crack in tolling a dirge for him. . July 6, Among State Histories: 1785 —Congress adopted the decimal sys tem of currency, establishing the Spanish dolar, which got its name from the (Bohemian thaler, as the U. S- dollar . . , 1846—Commodore John Gloat, commanding a U. S. naval squadron, seized California from Mexico . . . 1854—The first convention using the name of the Republican party, opaied in Detroit . . . 1892—First groat dsteel strike began in Homestead Mills, near Pitts burgh . . . 1920—F. D. Roosevelt was nominated as vice presidsnt. * * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The first sub marine was sunk by depth charge, which was to become the deadliest weapon of surface ships against sub mersibles. The UC-7 went down off Lowestoft a minute after a charge was poured overboard from the Brit ish patrol boat Salmon, a converted passenger motorboat. ❖ * blow the small subchaser, the “mos qu to boat” was to become naval craft. Small, fast, hard to hit, they were to be of invaluable aid in defending ship ping in coastal waters: Thirty-three other submarines were to be destroyed by depth-charges, which were developed in 1915 owing to the complete immun ty 'enjoyed by the submarine immediately on sub mersion. Though early depth charges could not be depended on to damage a submarine outside of a range of 30 feet, the effect on the nerve of a crew of a series of heavy explosions caus ing immense concussions inside the boat, was very marked! As indicated by the name, the 300 pounds of TNT on the depth charge is detonated on reaching a given depth, fixed by regulating it s“pistol,” or by automatic action of w»ter pres sure. (To be continued) tic matter without saying a word about it to the other side of the house. It is proudy excusing the small boy’s selfishness on the ground that he’s a boy and for no other reason at all. It is referring to “my” radio and ‘ my” automobile and “my” house— when everybody knows the whole family shares the ownership of those possessions. It is being all those things, having all those qualities that seem to de light some women when they are in love and INFURIATE all intelligent women all the rest of the time.